Major Spoilers Poll of the Week: Amazing Spider-Man 2 vs. Guardians of the Galaxy

This week, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 movie arrives in theaters, and though it is not part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the interest level for the movie appears to be high… right? At the other end of the summer, Guardians of the Galaxy arrives in theaters, and generally, people seem confused about the concept and how it does fit into the MCU.

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Guardians, simply from the standpoint that Marvel Studios is showing that it is able to tell a story that is fun and interesting to me. The latest incarnations of X-Men (Wolverine included) and Spider-Man have left a lot to be desired in my opinion.

Guardians of the Galaxy, hands down. There just wasn’t enough time for me between the different series of Spiderman movies. The new series isn’t bad, its just not… amazing.

In contrast Guardians looks like it will be fun and action packed. I don’t know what to expect from the movie version and I am looking forward to seeing what they do with it and how it ties in to the rest of the cinematic universe.

Eh I voted Spiderman only because I found Chris Pratt annoying in Parks & Rec and he seems like he’s playing the same type of character. But I’ve never seen him in anything else so I might be wrong. I’ll probably just wait for the bluray on both.

I know I’m dropping my money on both in the theaters, but Guardians has me more interested. Not only to see how this piece of the puzzle fits in the whole Marvel cinematic universe. But I am interested to see a kick butt comic space move. Plus I guarantee you, Guardians will be what Green Lantern should of been!

Guardians of the Galaxy is a super-hero movie unlike any we’ve seen and full of actors I’m already pre-disposed to love (Well hello there Alien Pond!). Plus the Amazing Spider-man looks over-stuffed and looks too artificial for my taste. So make mine Marvel (not Sony).

Tough choice. I haven’t like how Spider-man has been portrayed on screen and I don’t like the current Guardians team. This from someone that loved Spider-man from childhood and has always liked the real Guardians…you know, the team set in the future. I just settled for Spider-man for the heck of it.

I loved (not liked; LOVED) tASM. I think it’s the second best of all the Spidey movies made to date and stands toe to toe with Raimi’s Spider-Man 2. I like Garfield’s Peter Parker a lot more than Maguire’s Pete. I like Emma Stone a lot more than Kirsten Dunst.

All that said, I voted for Guardians of the Galaxy. I will go see ASM and I’ll probably enjoy it immensely. But I know to a great degree what I’m going to get with that movie. I don’t know what to expect from GotG.

I voted for SpiderMan. Mostly because SpiderMan has been a favorite of mine since the 70s (except for that whole clone saga thing) and I don’t know a thing about the Guardians of the Galaxy and what I have heard about them doesn’t interest me in the slightest. I mean, really, Marvel has the Inhumans, , the Defenders, the Avengers, The New Avengers, The Secret Avengers, The West Coast Avengers, The Fantastic Four, the X-men and various other mutant groups and when sales on those team books start to flag, some reputed “genius” decides the answer is to create some whole OTHER team book of super heroes? But mostly because the GotG didn’t come along until after my days of buying out the comic book shops every month came to an end. I’ll probably go see SpiderMan in the theater, but wait for the G0tG to come out on DVD.